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Tulsi Gabbard speaks during a news
conference on November 15, 2015. <span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:italic;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">(AP
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The war of words between former secretary of state
Hillary Clinton and current 2020 presidential aspirant
Tulsi Gabbard has been, in some respects, clarifying.
Clinton’s insinuation that Russia is “grooming” the
Hawaiian Democrat for a third-party run in order to
influence the outcome of next year’s election, instead
of provoking a “have you no shame?” response from the
establishment media, was gleefully repeated by such
establishment fixtures as the journalist <a href="https://twitter.com/jonathanalter/status/1186395785929416704" style="box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px 0px 2px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:rgb(207,14,14);border-left-color:initial;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(17,17,17);text-decoration-line:none;background-color:transparent;line-height:inherit;opacity:1;outline:0px" target="_blank">Jonathan Alter </a>and
the scholar <a href="https://twitter.com/NormOrnstein/status/1167653678678970368" style="box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px 0px 2px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:rgb(207,14,14);border-left-color:initial;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(17,17,17);text-decoration-line:none;background-color:transparent;line-height:inherit;opacity:1;outline:0px" target="_blank">Norman Ornstein</a>.
In other words, McCarthyism has gone mainstream.</p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:20px;font-style:inherit;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.6;word-spacing:0.3px">To
get to the root of what is going on here, the spat
between the Clinton camp and the upstart,
anti-interventionist Gabbard must be placed within the
broader context of the past several years during which,
under the influence of Russiagate, the Democratic Party
and the establishment media have taken the lead in
calling for a new Cold War. Only then can Clinton’s
accusation be seen for what it is, part of a long
campaign of vilification and demonization against
critics of the establishment consensus on Russia going
back at least to late 2013, if not earlier.</p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:20px;font-style:inherit;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.6;word-spacing:0.3px">Express
doubts about the establishment’s preferred policy toward
Russia, and you will find yourself not only in the
crosshairs of the liberal mainstream media but, even
more worryingly, on the radar of the intelligence
community—just ask a minor Trump campaign functionary
like George Papadopoulos.</p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:20px;font-style:inherit;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.6;word-spacing:0.3px">Left-leaning
outlets and think tanks like MSNBC (<i style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:inherit">Hardball</i> host
Chris Matthews has decreed that loyal “Americans don’t
go to Russia”), <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/meet-the-anti-semites-truthers-and-alaska-pol-at-dcs-pro-putin-soiree" style="box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px 0px 2px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:rgb(207,14,14);border-left-color:initial;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(17,17,17);text-decoration-line:none;background-color:transparent;line-height:inherit;opacity:1;outline:0px" target="_blank"><i style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:inherit">The
Daily Beast</i></a>, <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2014/03/pathetic-lives-of-putins-american-dupes.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px 0px 2px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:rgb(207,14,14);border-left-color:initial;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(17,17,17);text-decoration-line:none;background-color:transparent;line-height:inherit;opacity:1;outline:0px" target="_blank"><i style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:inherit">New
York</i> magazine</a>, <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/acewa-anti-semitic-board-member-cf4a2e69e082/" style="box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px 0px 2px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:rgb(207,14,14);border-left-color:initial;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(17,17,17);text-decoration-line:none;background-color:transparent;line-height:inherit;opacity:1;outline:0px" target="_blank"><i style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:inherit">Think
Progress</i></a>, the <a href="https://twitter.com/neeratanden/status/1091894508520906752?lang=en" style="box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px 0px 2px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:rgb(207,14,14);border-left-color:initial;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(17,17,17);text-decoration-line:none;background-color:transparent;line-height:inherit;opacity:1;outline:0px" target="_blank">Center for
American Progress</a>, and <i style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:inherit"><a href="https://twitter.com/juliaioffe/status/461936460627996673" style="box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px 0px 2px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:rgb(207,14,14);border-left-color:initial;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(17,17,17);text-decoration-line:none;background-color:transparent;line-height:inherit;opacity:1;display:inline;word-break:break-word;outline:0px" target="_blank">The New
Republic</a></i> have all recklessly accused
scholars, journalists, and activists with whom they
disagree of being Kremlin “<a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/117606/stephen-cohen-wrong-russia-ukraine-america" style="box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px 0px 2px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:rgb(207,14,14);border-left-color:initial;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(17,17,17);text-decoration-line:none;background-color:transparent;line-height:inherit;opacity:1;outline:0px" target="_blank">toadies</a>”
and “<a href="https://twitter.com/neeratanden/status/1091894508520906752?lang=en" style="box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px 0px 2px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:rgb(207,14,14);border-left-color:initial;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(17,17,17);text-decoration-line:none;background-color:transparent;line-height:inherit;opacity:1;outline:0px" target="_blank">useful idiots</a>”
—this last, of course, having been a common trope
marched out by the John Birch right during the Cold War,
and even in the years following.</p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:20px;font-style:inherit;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.6;word-spacing:0.3px">Former
Vermont governor Howard Dean has frequently accused
journalists and news outlets with which he disagrees of
being conduits for Russian propaganda. An <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/international/381246-Did-Californias-Ro-Khanna-get-duped-by-Russias-propaganda%253F" style="box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px 0px 2px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:rgb(207,14,14);border-left-color:initial;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(17,17,17);text-decoration-line:none;background-color:transparent;line-height:inherit;opacity:1;outline:0px" target="_blank">op-ed </a>by
Kristofer Harrison in <i style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:inherit">The
Hill </i>accused California Representative Ro Khanna
of doing a “favor” for Vladimir Putin in sponsoring
legislation that would cut off US funding to neo-Nazi
battalions in Ukraine.</p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:20px;font-style:inherit;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.6;word-spacing:0.3px">After
the 2016 election, as the author Tony Wood puts it in
his book <i style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:inherit">Russia
Without Putin</i>, “the paranoias of the Cold War
seemed to have made a comeback.”</p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:20px;font-style:inherit;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.6;word-spacing:0.3px">Which
is only too true.</p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:20px;font-style:inherit;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.6;word-spacing:0.3px">Over
the last several years, high government officials have
attempted to paint discourse and policy proposals with
which they disagree as tantamount to disloyalty, if not
worse.</p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:20px;font-style:inherit;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.6;word-spacing:0.3px">One
need only look to March 2017, when, on the floor of the
US Senate, the senior senator from Arizona, John McCain,
accused Kentucky Republican Rand Paul of “working for
Vladimir Putin.” The accusation came amid an effort by
Paul to have an actual debate (as opposed to a voice
vote) over whether Montenegro should join NATO. Said
McCain to Paul, “If there is objection, you are
achieving the objectives of Vladimir Putin.”</p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:20px;font-style:inherit;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.6;word-spacing:0.3px">Still
more alarming, several months later, in December 2017, a
little-noticed amicus curiae brief sent by former
high-ranking US intelligence officials, asserted that
Russia uses “political organizers and activists,
academics, journalists, web operators, shell companies,
nationalists and militant groups, and prominent
pro-Russian businessmen” to subvert the American
political process.</p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:20px;font-style:inherit;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.6;word-spacing:0.3px">Russia’s
intermediaries, said the brief cosigned by, among
others, former CIA director John Brennan, may include
“the unwitting accomplice who is manipulated to act in
what he believes is his best interest, to the
ideological or economic ally who broadly shares Russian
interests, to the knowing agent of influence who is
recruited or coerced to directly advance Russian
operations and objectives.” <br>
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<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:20px;font-style:inherit;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.6;word-spacing:0.3px">And
this is precisely what Clinton has now accused Tulsi
Gabbard, a woman of color, a combat vet and a major in
the Army National Guard, of being: an accomplice in
Russia’s malign campaign to influence the 2020
election. What we are now seeing is nothing less than
a joint effort by the former secretary of state and
her allies in the media (which very much include
certain former high ranking members of the US
intelligence community) to vilify those like Gabbard
who vocally oppose a new Cold War with Russia.</p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:20px;font-style:inherit;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.6;word-spacing:0.3px">With
the exception of Representative Beto O’Rouke and
Senator Bernie Sanders, rather few of Gabbard’s 2020
rivals rushed to her defense. And while <i style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:inherit">The
Nation</i>’s national correspondent Jeet Heer <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/clinton-tulsi-gabbard/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px 0px 2px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:rgb(207,14,14);border-left-color:initial;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(17,17,17);text-decoration-line:none;background-color:transparent;line-height:inherit;opacity:1;outline:0px" target="_blank">noted</a> that
it is “crucial to defend Gabbard from Clinton’s smear,
which is rooted in a pernicious tendency of centrists
to see criticism of the status quo as treason,” the
silence with which this development has been greeted
by many of the erstwhile guardians of political
dissent on the left has been nothing short of
deafening.</p>
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Nation</i> and the executive editor for the <a href="https://eastwestaccord.com/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px 0px 2px;border-top-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-left-style:initial;border-left-color:initial;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(17,17,17);background-color:transparent;line-height:inherit;opacity:1;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(212,29,0);outline:0px;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">American
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